Join me for every Monday morning to introduce the benefits and practice of Mindfulness to enable you to optimise your well-being. During the course of the weeks we will explore the following

Learn a few mindfulness practices to incorporate into your every day

Explore the benefits of mindfulness

Learn about Human Givens and optimise your emotional wellbeing

Learn how to use mindfulness to lower emotional arousal enabling better coping skills

Build resilience

This is not a course so you can drop in any Monday or every Monday whatever suits your best.

Being more mindful can help relieve stress and anxiety in your everyday life. Meditation can help you become more focused and perform at your best. Mindful meditation is a powerful way to start your week and experience as a result the benefit to your emotional and physical well-being.

As humans we are aware of our physical needs and how to get them met, but what about our emotional needs? What are our emotional needs as humans and how do we ensure we get them met? Our emotional needs are a form of nutrition and when these are not met adequately we can feel depleted and under nourished, just as when we are not physically at our best. Learn how you can build resilience in this ever changing world no matter what your circumstances. In this three hour workshop you will learn about your emotional needs and how you can get them met adequately. You will explore the wonderful resources you already have and how you can use them to your advantage. Using both your needs and resources you can learn techniques to help you build resilience. You will practice relaxation techniques to help you cope better with every day stresses. This is an interactive morning with plenty of opportunity to explore your own emotional well-being needs. Participants will gain the knowledge of what their emotional needs are and information on how to use their resources to get them met and how these can empower you to build resilience to whatever comes your way. Join us for this enjoyable, interactive and relaxing morning. Give yourself three hours of self care to look after your well being and ultimately reap the benefits to emerge more resilient, relaxed and with the knowledge on how to look after yourself no matter what comes your way.

MIND your SELF is a day-long introduction to Mindful Meditation practice and Human Givens psychology. Both approaches have proven benefits for emotional health and physical health. Join us for a unique, rich day designed to introduce the benefits and practice of both to enable you to harness the power of your brain and optimse your health.

Learn why Mindfulness has a positive impact on mental and physical health

Practice different approaches to reach mindful state

Learn about Human Givens and how it charts a map to understand what we need to be emotionally healthy.

Learn how to harness the power of your brain to achieve mindfulness, lower emotional arousal & function more healthily.

Build mental resilience, encourage healing, prevent ill-health

This Mindfulness and Human Givens course differs from other approaches to teaching Mindful meditation in that it introduces a variety of avenues into practice – from Eastern traditional approaches, Qi Gong, for example, to Western approaches, as exemplified in Jon Kabat Zinn’s MBSR, across a number of practices of different duration and type. This is all set within a Human Givens Psychological framework.

So, why practice Mindful Meditation?

To be healthier – in mind and body

To create spaciousness of mind to enable choice in response to the environment

To increase clear thinking

To reduce emotional reactivity in response to stress or perceived threat

The HG Approach is based on the most effective techniques devised across all schools of psychotherapy over time, and underpinned by the great neuroscientific findings of recent times. It’s based on how the brain actually works, rather than an ideological premise as to how it might.

HG has introduced breakthrough theories about the function of dreams and the cycle of depression and refined the safest and most effective ways of treating depression, trauma, anxiety and addictions

The essential HG Approach and understanding of health is applicable across a very broad spectrum of experience: wherever there are people seeking to work and live well together.

Human Givens therapy is quick (working in half the time of alternate approaches), effective and safe.

Devised in the late 1990s by Joe Griffin, an Irish Psychologist, and Ivan Tyrrell, an English Psychotherapist, it offers a profound understanding of emotional health, and how we achieve and keep it, based on a seamless reciprocal marriage between theory and practice.

Course Description

The course will anchor the experience of mindfulness in the neuroscientific evidence that demonstrates its effectiveness, explaining how and why it works. Key elements of Human Givens will be explained so that a growing capacity to be mindful can be informed and supported by a growing understanding of what we need to be healthy in the world, and how we can achieve that. Thus theory, information and practice will be at the core of the course offering a holistic approach to Mindfulness and optimum emotional health and the immediate insight, understanding and opportunity to begin to achieve it.

The Day

The day will run from 10am to 4.30pm approximately. A 45-minute lunch break and two 15-minute tea/coffee breaks will be included. Tea/Coffee and lunch will be provided.

It will consist of:

An introduction to the ancient wisdom and origins of mindfulness, as well as the science of mindfulness

Nick Power, Dip Psych, HG Dip P, MHGI, is a fully qualified Human Givens Practitioner with a Higher Diploma in Psychotherapy from Nottingham Trent University. He is also a registered member of the Human Givens Institute and holds a Certificate in Addiction Studies from NUI Maynooth

He has a deep knowledge and commitment to Mindful Meditation having first been introduced to it through his study of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) twenty years ago in Ireland and in Nanjing, China. He has previously taught Tae Chi and Ci Gong and is a huge exponent of the power of meditation to facilitate optimum mental and physical health.

Cathriona Edwards

Cathriona Edwards, HG DIP, BA (hons) Psych, MHGI is a fully qualified Human Givens Psychotherapist, with a higher diploma in Human Givens Psychotherapy, from the Human Givens College, is a registered member of the Human Givens Institute, and has an Honours Degree in Psychology from Trinity College Dublin. She is practicing Human Givens Psychotherapy at the Dublin Humana Givens Centre.

Her introduction to Mindfulness was via the MBSR (Mind Body Stress Reduction) approach as devised by Jon Kabat Zinn – which she was taught at The Oscailt Centre in Dublin. Cathriona is a strong advocate of its great potential benefits for stress reduction and optimizing emotional and physical health.

Cost per person: €90

Prior Booking is Essential. Availability is restricted to ensure intimacy of group to maximize learning and experience.